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• How does your work incorporate the art of storytelling?- It gives people a look at someones personal life and lets them be able to explore deeper into this persons thoughts and possibly make different stories and get different ideas from it. 
• What do you hope your audience gains from your work?- To see the life my mom lives and see how it effects me.
• What did you gain from doing this work. - Getting a deeper understanding of what my mom actually does.

I am analyzing act 1 scene 3 from hamlet and I am focusing on the part when the Polonius begins his speech to Ophelia about hamlet and how he doesn't seeing any good in him and how he doesn't want her involved with him. Before this Laertes was just talking to Ophelia about the same thing and how hamlet doesn't want her because of his stature compared to hers. In the speech that Polonius gives to Ophelia he tells her reasons as to why hamlet doesn't want her or why he thinks that he wouldn't want her. He goes on in his speech and pretty much just says that hamlet is basically a pig and will never love her because he can have any girl he wants and that he has to high of a stature then her and would never be with her. To me I think that Polonius was keeping it real with his daughter and having a deep serious father daughter talk with her about the guy who she seems to be in love with. Even though he may have hurt her feelings with this talk but he got his point across and showed that he cared and didn't want to end up seeing his daughter getting hut by having high hopes for something that wouldn't happen. I think that this was important because if Polonius hadn't had this talk with his daughter Ophelia he may have ended up feeling terrible later on down the line if his daughter were to be hurt by hamlet and he would feel worse since he didn't warn her about something that he knew about. To me I think this shows how much Polonius cares about his daughter and how he doesn't want to see her with her feelings hurt and shows that he is a good father who tries to protect whats his no matter what, because he didn't seem to make this speech as if he was thinking about how his words may have hurt her feelings he just wanted to get his point across the way he saw as right and try his best with all his ability to protect his daughter from being hurt.  When Polonius says "Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers" to Ophelia I think that he is telling her to not listen to things Hamlet tells her because they are lies and that is one of his reasons for him not wanting his daughter to talk to Hamlet. "I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, Have you so slander any moment leisure, As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet." Polonius is clearly and straight forwardly telling Ophelia that he doesn't want her to talk to Hamlet because of the fact that he thinks that Hamlet only wants her for sex because he can have any women that he wants because of his stature and would never be serious about Ophelia and Polonius doesn't want his daughter to get hurt by Hamlet because of this so he clearly states that he forbids her from talking to Hamlet. 

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I was sitting at a table with my friend and said ,

“Yo u hear about that jawn who was rumblin”  

“Naw but who was she rumblin and why?”  

“Man you kno how girls always fightin over the dumbest stuff but i dont really know why she was mixin”

“Oh trizz but yo you heard bout jawn that was bout 2 get jumped”  

“yea thats crazy”

This would be how i would talk to my friend at a public place and this relates to my life because when i go out to public places i have to switch the way i would talk and act if i was with my friends. Also this goes for the same with adults if i am talking to an adult then i won’t talk like I’m talking to my friend and sometimes its hard to switch between these. When I’m outside

walking somewhere relates to my life because i have had problems with people trying to fight or jump me and my friend or friends because we say the wrong thing and it doesn’t have to be directed at them at all.

In my life I use many different ways of speaking and i code switch a lot. For example If i am outside with just my friends then i will joke around curse a lot and basically just have a good time and not care about what I’m saying and hardly ever speak proper, but if I’m in public like at a restaurant or something then i will still joke around but not curse because I’m in a public place and if I’m talking to my friends I would use slang but if I’m talking to an adult then i would talk properly. If i am in my neighborhood but I’m walking somewhere i don’t talk a lot because that could attract attention and people would then try and mess with me and my friends or start a fight if i say the wrong thing or if they don’t like the way i talk or the way i sound. If I’m at home and my mom is home i will not curse because then she would probably hit me because I’m not suppose to curse around adults, if I’m at school in a class i wont curse but when I’m in the halls or at lunch i will curse because i would be with my friends. When i talk to adults i talk to all adults with respect because that’s what i was taught to do by my mother and i don’t use slang because I’m suppose to speak proper to adults. This matters because if i talk to a certain person the wrong way i could get hurt or in trouble and i could be looked upon differently then i want to be looked upon and how my family is looked upon.

This also relates to code switching because depending on who i am talking to depends on the way i talk . For example if I’m talking to an adult I’m not going to be cursing or yelling or cutting them off or being disrespectful because that would be wrong, I would talk to an adult like this

“hey”

“hi”

“how are you”

“good and yourself”

“Fine thanks for asking”

“have a nice day”

“ok thanks you do the same”  

If I’m talking to my friends i will curse and joke around and things in that nature like this.

“Sup Fam”

“yo my ni**a wats good”

“YA MOM”

*laughs* “that doesnt make since” *jokingly*

“Yo u did that nut a** homework”

“Naw motherfu***a i was jus gonna copy jawnski’s”

“true that gucci my ni**a”

If I’m outside and I’m walking somewhere then i wont be just saying anything i want because if i say the wrong thing it could start trouble and i try to avoid trouble as much as possible. When I code switch i don’t like it because i want to be able to talk to everybody the same way but if i do that it could end me up i trouble. For me code switching is like a good skill to have so then you can know how to talk to different types of people and would be able to accept more people or to be able to withstand people that others might not be able to because of there personality or something. To me the way a person talks could be how there personality is and if you don’t know how to code switch then you might have a hard time accepting other people for who they are and might have trouble in the work world so that’s why i think that being able to code switch is a good skill to have.

For example of a reason you need to know how to code switch in my neighborhood one time i was with two of my friends Rondel and Survon and it was a hot summer day and we were walking to our friend Juniors house. When we were walking we walked pass edmonds which is a playground where there is a basketball court at in my neighborhood, and there were 3 boys playing basketball. Then the boys started walking toward us after we were at the end of the block and one of them was yelling "COME HERE" but we didnt know the boys so we kept walking. Then the 3 boys caught up to us on the next block and one of the boys said to Survon

"watsup"

and he said "nothing much chilling" then the other boy said " i dont mean watsup i mean watsup wit a mix". Then Rondel said "we dont want to fight we dont want no problems" then the boy said "i didnt ask you that but wat if i wanted a problem" so we kept walking and they kept following us until we got up to st raymonds which is a school/church in my neighborhood and thats when the boys were next to us so we were trying to get away from them. Then the boy said to Rondel "yo rumble me" and Rondel said "why u wanna rumble u dont kno me and i already said i dont want no problems" then the boy said "i dont like you cuz i dont kno u so rumble me" then Rondel said "why dont u and one of them slap box if you wanna rumble so bad" then the boy said "cuz they like my bros" and the other boy said "WHAT!" to what Rondel had said. then we just kept walking and they left us alone because we were going to west oak lane and the gang BI is in west oak lane and 1-4 is in mt airy and they dont like each other so they didnt want any trouble really. In my neighborhood if you dont know how to code switch then you could end up in trouble because if you are from a different neighborhood then you might talk differently then people in my neighborhood. If your not from my neighborhood and you dont know how we talk then most people are going to want to fight you so code switching is good so that you dont get into trouble in unknown places to you and so you dont get hurt, you could also end up in a scene like me and my friends did.

To me the way i speak influences a lot about me like the type of people i hang with and type of music i listen to. In the future i will have to understand how to relate to may different personalities so that i can get and keep a job because if i dont like my boss i will still have to just deal with him or her and the people i work with.  

(sitting at a desk writing a letter)  Dear my fellow Americans this is your president of the United States Barrack Obama and I am here today to talk to you about the XL pipeline. For starters I understand people are trying to get me nervous by protesting in front of the white house and getting arrested, but I would like to tell you that I am not nervous at all and I don’t have much say in the choice to accept or deny this pipeline as of right now but I would like to tell you that I am for the pipeline. This is because I am trying to do what’s best for the economy, because by getting this pipeline we will have more money because we wont have to spend a lot on oil and then this will make more jobs so then maybe the US can get out of some debts and more people can have more money. With more money we might be able to cut down on crimes because we could open up more areas for kids to go after school and during the summer and we could get more cops on the streets to make sure that we can make sure to reduce the amount of street crime. I understand that this may cause some environmental issues as for the fact that the pipe may leak into the aquatic that we on going to run the pipeline through and if this happens we can and will lose some fresh water and maybe even some aquatic life but overall we are trying to see what we could possibly do to prevent this from happening. What the people of the united states need to realize is that this will save us money and make the economy better and could help us win the war, because with more money we can get more and better weapons and the big gas companies will pay more for the oil from us and we could possibly get out of the debt that this country has. That is all I have to say for now my fellow Americans I will have another letter when I have more information.

(standing outside of obamas office typing on a phone)  Hello everybody out there I’m one of Obama’s many security guards and from what I hear he is against the XL pipeline because of the environmental effects it can have. I also think that the people are putting a lot of pressure on him so he might be against it for that reason to. Me personally I am against this XL pipeline because there are to many risks and too much harm that could be done to the environment. For starters we could lose a lot of fresh water and that could also cause I to lose some sea life that we eat so it could make a lot of seafood extinct because if the oil is in the water long enough it will kill everything that’s in the water with it. Also since this oil is dirtier then the oil we already have it can pollute the air and then that might not be good for global warming and it wont be good for humans because if the air gets more polluted it may effect the trees and without tress humans cant live because we wouldn’t have enough CO2 so then we could die. So for all you people who want this pipeline you should think about these things because I don’t think that you realize how bad this is for the environment it not all about the economics it more about how this will effect the people and not about the amount of money we could possibly have.

(laying on a bed writing)  Hello everyone this is a local Canadian resident and I want to talk to you fellow Americans who want this pipeline to happen, if this happens this could ruin my house, life, and family. If this pipeline is approved they will have to put it through peoples backyards including mine and since this oil is dirtier then regular oil if it leaks out it will destroy my house and could possibly kill the people in it. Also I don’t know why Canada would sell oil that we could use and it could save us money instead of selling it to the united states now were going to have to spend more money on oil and have less money for are economy. Also this could endanger a lot of lives because of how many people’s homes this pipeline would have to run through a lot of peoples property and we could lose some great landmarks. So in my final statement I just want to say that you Americans should think about how this will affect everyone and not just yourselves before you accept this pipeline. I think you people who are for this pipeline should put yourselves in my position and realize how much this would affect you especially if you have a family